12-29-2009, 02:19 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-29-2009, 02:37 AM by Questioner.)
Kristy, I'm glad you enjoy the reading material. And my goodness you are full of questions! 
I recommend that while studying the Law of One, you explore its own terms, concepts, and definitions, without trying to evaluate them in terms of other approaches to spirituality.
For example, you referred to what other sources said about the nature of God, of free will, of Mormon doctrine, of harps & clouds in heaven after this life, and so on.
Those other sources may well inspire you and bring you a life of joy, peace, wisdom, love, balance and success beyond what the Law of One could offer you. That is certainly possible! However, if you try to mix and match them all at once, you'll find that it's difficult to appreciate what each has to offer. Steak is wonderful, ice cream is wonderful, steak ice cream with BBQ sauce, butterscotch and broccoli all at once, is not wonderful!
L/L Research has material spanning decades. Carla's summary of this material runs to hundreds of pages. I'll try to give you a very concise overview of what we're talking about here but this may take several installments. I may be mistaken about some or even much of this, if so, chances are excellent that others will help you with a more accurate and useful explanation.
Let's start with the biggest picture.
The Law of One material says that the One Creator desired to have a broader range of experience than infinite unity. Therefore, the Creator decided to have individual parts that had their own consciousness. This provides the Creator with a variety of experiences and perceptions that contrast with infinite unity. We are in the midst of the Creator's exploration of what it could be like to have variety and differences, rather than total unity.
God's free will is that portions of God have their own experiences and exercise their own free will.
Ra refers to this variety of experiences as "distortions." That word can cause some confusion, because Ra does not mean that there is anything inherently negative or unworthy about these distortions. They are, however, distortions from the ultimate unity that the Creator experienced before this universe began, and which Ra expects the Creator will experience again after this universe ends.
However, Ra refers to the beginning and ending of the universe as mysterious to comprehend, even at Ra's level. Therefore Ra doesn't speculate that much about these matters.
Each of the earlier, more fundamental, closer to the Creator distortions explored the nature of Creation by further creating subdivisions which have their own consciousness. Through this process, galaxies were created, each having their own consciousness. Within galaxies, stars were created, each having their own consciousness.
Each of these stars are a sub-creator or Logos in their own right, creating planets that in many cases support living creators with their own consciousness. Our own Sun, itself a Logos, created several planets including our present Earth. On this earth, we each experience our individual consciousness as we move around with our bodies.
In our galaxy, some stars had created circumstances for individual creatures who were completely aware of all these spiritual activities. These creatures had a great sense of unity, because they were fully aware of their unified existence as components of a greater sub-creator who in turn was part of the One Creator exploring itself. However, they had rather stagnant lives because they knew that the ups and downs of their physical existences were not any challenge to their spiritual existence.
Our own star, our Sun, experimented with a technique that would provide an opportunity for its creatures to have a very intensified opportunity for spiritual growth and development. This technique is to place a veil that prevents conscious awareness of the whole spiritual situation. With the veil in place, individual creatures identify with their bodies and fear their destruction when the body's life ends.
Fearing that this separation might mean ultimate death, yet also fearing that merging might also mean the death of their individual essence, there is good reason to explore whether there might be something more than this life. This exploration can lead us to re-discover our greater unity with the whole spiritual situation, growing in love and appreciation on the positive path, or growing in desire to manipulate circumstances to our own advantage at the expense of others, on the negative path.
The veil cannot be surpassed by logically tracing through evidence. The situation on Earth is deliberately set up so that we must use faith to choose what we believe. If we choose to believe that this life is all there is, or if we choose to believe that there is something more, either way it's an act of faith without enough evidence to force a conclusion. We each have to make a choice about the meaning and purpose of our own lives.
We are in the midst of our Sun's exploration of how the veil intensifies opportunities for free will discovery of faith.
This answers about half of the questions you've raised so far.
I recommend that while studying the Law of One, you explore its own terms, concepts, and definitions, without trying to evaluate them in terms of other approaches to spirituality.
For example, you referred to what other sources said about the nature of God, of free will, of Mormon doctrine, of harps & clouds in heaven after this life, and so on.
Those other sources may well inspire you and bring you a life of joy, peace, wisdom, love, balance and success beyond what the Law of One could offer you. That is certainly possible! However, if you try to mix and match them all at once, you'll find that it's difficult to appreciate what each has to offer. Steak is wonderful, ice cream is wonderful, steak ice cream with BBQ sauce, butterscotch and broccoli all at once, is not wonderful!
L/L Research has material spanning decades. Carla's summary of this material runs to hundreds of pages. I'll try to give you a very concise overview of what we're talking about here but this may take several installments. I may be mistaken about some or even much of this, if so, chances are excellent that others will help you with a more accurate and useful explanation.
Let's start with the biggest picture.
The Law of One material says that the One Creator desired to have a broader range of experience than infinite unity. Therefore, the Creator decided to have individual parts that had their own consciousness. This provides the Creator with a variety of experiences and perceptions that contrast with infinite unity. We are in the midst of the Creator's exploration of what it could be like to have variety and differences, rather than total unity.
God's free will is that portions of God have their own experiences and exercise their own free will.
Ra refers to this variety of experiences as "distortions." That word can cause some confusion, because Ra does not mean that there is anything inherently negative or unworthy about these distortions. They are, however, distortions from the ultimate unity that the Creator experienced before this universe began, and which Ra expects the Creator will experience again after this universe ends.
However, Ra refers to the beginning and ending of the universe as mysterious to comprehend, even at Ra's level. Therefore Ra doesn't speculate that much about these matters.
Each of the earlier, more fundamental, closer to the Creator distortions explored the nature of Creation by further creating subdivisions which have their own consciousness. Through this process, galaxies were created, each having their own consciousness. Within galaxies, stars were created, each having their own consciousness.
Each of these stars are a sub-creator or Logos in their own right, creating planets that in many cases support living creators with their own consciousness. Our own Sun, itself a Logos, created several planets including our present Earth. On this earth, we each experience our individual consciousness as we move around with our bodies.
In our galaxy, some stars had created circumstances for individual creatures who were completely aware of all these spiritual activities. These creatures had a great sense of unity, because they were fully aware of their unified existence as components of a greater sub-creator who in turn was part of the One Creator exploring itself. However, they had rather stagnant lives because they knew that the ups and downs of their physical existences were not any challenge to their spiritual existence.
Our own star, our Sun, experimented with a technique that would provide an opportunity for its creatures to have a very intensified opportunity for spiritual growth and development. This technique is to place a veil that prevents conscious awareness of the whole spiritual situation. With the veil in place, individual creatures identify with their bodies and fear their destruction when the body's life ends.
Fearing that this separation might mean ultimate death, yet also fearing that merging might also mean the death of their individual essence, there is good reason to explore whether there might be something more than this life. This exploration can lead us to re-discover our greater unity with the whole spiritual situation, growing in love and appreciation on the positive path, or growing in desire to manipulate circumstances to our own advantage at the expense of others, on the negative path.
The veil cannot be surpassed by logically tracing through evidence. The situation on Earth is deliberately set up so that we must use faith to choose what we believe. If we choose to believe that this life is all there is, or if we choose to believe that there is something more, either way it's an act of faith without enough evidence to force a conclusion. We each have to make a choice about the meaning and purpose of our own lives.
We are in the midst of our Sun's exploration of how the veil intensifies opportunities for free will discovery of faith.
This answers about half of the questions you've raised so far.